Can You Predict a ‘Bad’ Psychedelic Trip?

Evan Lewis-Healey
5 min readApr 14, 2021

New research from Central Michigan University highlights the states and traits that predict negative experiences in a psychedelic session.

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Neuroscientist, author, and well-travelled psychonaut Sam Harris, describes a memorably “bad” acid trip of his twenties during a 2011 podcast episode. After watching the sunrise in solitude, in a rowboat overlooking the Annapurna range of Nepal, Harris…

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Evan Lewis-Healey

PhD candidate at Cambridge University. Studying the cognitive neuroscience of altered states of consciousness.